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Message: [QUOTE="NielsisGood, post: 2209612, member: 7503"] The narrative wasn't "What's wrong with D-Wade", it was "The Heat are managing his minutes to save him for the playoffs". He also didn't "fade in the playoffs" given that the 46% he shot in the postseason that year is only 1 less than his 47% career mark, and the lower FTAs were due to generally having the ball in his hand less, as evidenced by the 5% drop in usage and 5 less FGA that season. He really only had a poor final 2 games against the Spurs, but both games were nearly 20-point blowouts anyways so can't really pin that solely on Wade. I can't really take your talking about a specific portion of a game where the Heat had 2 of their big 3 resting on the bench against a Spurs team that basically played 7 guys in games 6-7 of the 13 finals, 2 of those were a 36 year old Duncan and a 35 year old Manu, 2 more being Gary Neal and Boris Diaw's fat tits. You also didn't mention Parker going 6-23 in game 6 or Parker & Danny Green combining for 4-24 in game 7. Stop selectively picking your anecdotal Lebron memories to build your case on, you sound so very much like Brian Windhorst when you do that. Thing with listing Lebron's great achievements is that you can list nearly as many black marks that hurt his case: 1. Getting completely destroyed in the 07 finals even though the games themselves were much closer than anyone remembers 2. Giving up against the Celts in 2010 3. Relocating to build his original super team (I actually blame him more for going back to Cleveland when this super team started to age but this is still a point of contention for many people) 4. His complete meltdown in the 2011 finals 5. Leaving his partially aging super team to go back to Cleveland under the condition that they restack the deck in his favor 6. Being 3-4 in his 7 NBA finals series. Even forgiving the 07 finals he'd still be at .500, name me another top 3, 5, or 10 player (who didn't come from the Bill Russell era) with such a mediocre finals record. Adding everything up, It's hard to make any serious argument for LeBron over MJ unless James leads his teams to another couple titles. [/QUOTE]

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